Exploring interactions between animals and their environments
Photo: Raul Suarez
About the lab
Our research falls within the fields of ecological, evolutionary, and conservation physiology. We combine field and laboratory studies to understand how birds, mammals and fish respond to environmental stressors.
Good news
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Student Award
Sept 2025
Congratulations to Taylor Brown on receiving the Student Award from the Animal Behaviour Society, for her publication on light attraction in Atlantic puffins
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Graduation
June 2025
Congratulation to Anna Lane on receiving her B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Biomedical Sciences. Anna is now off to vet school at the University of Guelph!
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Successful PhD defence
May 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Taylor Brown on the successful defence of her PhD thesis on light attraction in seabirds!
“For such a large number of problems there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied.”
— August Krogh, 1929
Why our work matters
We provide scientists and managers with rigorous physiological data on the limits to organismal performance, and on the role of phenotypic plasticity as a mechanism to permit population persistence in response to rapid environmental change
Join the lab!
Interested in animal ecological, evolutionary, or conservation physiology?
We welcome inquires for prospective undergraduate and graduate students, as well as post-doctoral fellows
Photo: Johanna Schroeder